Vic Chesnutt · 1996 Spin it Again - Vic Chesnutt made fifteen albums and this is the one that gets more interior the longer you leave it alone.

Soundgarden · 1994 Spin it Again - Cornell had four octaves and used none of them to impress you — that restraint is why this one still holds.

Tori Amos · 1998 Spin it Again - The album she made after losing a pregnancy — with Matt Chamberlain on drums and Tchad Blake behind the glass — sounds like nothing else she recorded before or since.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 1999 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine's drummer made a record in two countries that sounds like neither of them — and somehow that's exactly right.

Temple of the Dog · 1991 Spin it Again - A grief record made in a few weeks by people who didn't know they were about to become famous, and it shows — in the best possible way.

Screaming Trees · 1992 Spin it Again - The record that proved the Screaming Trees were never really a grunge band — they just had the bad luck to live there.

Various Artists · 1992 Spin it Again - Everyone owns this for the Pearl Jam track and forgets there are nine other songs worth their time.

XTC · 1992 Spin it Again - Gus Dudgeon, Prairie Prince, harpsichord, martyrdom myths, and the quiet sound of a band making their best record while ceasing to exist.

Prefab Sprout · 1984 Spin it Again - The album that serious songwriters quietly cite when they think no one is listening.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Peter Gabriel · 1994 Spin it Again - Gabriel built the room and had the sense to stay out of the way.

Richard Thompson · 1991 Spin it Again - One acoustic guitar, one story about a motorcyclist and a redhead, and somehow five minutes later you've heard one of the best songs of the century.

Blue Rodeo · 1991 Spin it Again - Toronto, 1991, while grunge was eating everything — Blue Rodeo made a pedal-steel record about memory and didn't apologize for a second of it.

Spirit of the West · 1992 Spin it Again - A Vancouver folk-rock band in peak form, making the kind of record that Gold certification in Canada quietly undersells.

Spirit Of The West · 1994 Spin it Again - You know the party song. This is the album they made when the party was over.

Buena Vista Social Club · 1997 Spin it Again - They found Ibrahim Ferrer shining shoes and Rubén González without a piano, and six days later this existed.

Red Hot Org · 1994 Spin it Again - A benefit record that forgot to be polite about it — Laswell, Santana, Bootsy Collins, and Billy Higgins in the same room, the year after Ra died.

Codeine · 1992 Spin it Again - While Sub Pop was busy with loud guitars, Codeine quietly made the quietest record on the roster — and it hit harder than most of the rest.

Swans · 1993 Spin it Again - Swans learned to be terrifying at low volume, and this is the document where that became undeniable.

Gastr del Sol · 1995 Spin it Again - The guitarist from Jesus Lizard and the engineer who would later make Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' made this first — and it sounds like it.

Vusi Mahlasela · 1990 Spin it Again - Recorded in Pretoria in 1990, this is what it sounds like when someone has been singing for their life and finally gets a microphone worth the trouble.